Fools Crow: Scene Analysis
This scene is about the massacre of a band of Indians. Fools Crow can smell the death, and he knows what he is about to see, and he goes into the camp, anyway. He knows that he has to see it to understand it. He even forces Heavy-charging-in-the-bush to take him into the camp when the horse is reluctant. The scene could come right out of a horror novel: the smell of decaying flesh in the air; the eerie, "sharp-edged" sun; dark smoke emanating from the dead lifeless camp. The author uses very descriptive language to illustrate the importance of this scene. The tone is very grim.James Welch contrasts the white of the snow with the black of the corpses. Fools Crow is sickened by this gruesome scene. We see how he weeps, falls off his horse and vomits, and we can assume that he is crying, since the author refers to him seeing "through h
These are peoples' body parts; body parts that seem to be laying around on the ground in the dead men's land. This is not the first time that Fools Crow has done this, either. New life can grow even among gruesome scenes of terror. After a while Fools Crow had seen enough. He also tells us about how everyone and all their body parts were black. He talks about there being teeth, eyes, bone, arms, and legs. Black people is not something that we often see. " Welch used parallel structure in his description of the bodies for emphasis. Fools Crow must have initially been disgusted with white men. He stopped seeing what was around him. And Fools Crow predictably is sick when he sees it, holding true with the theory that violence makes people sick.
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